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7. Erignathus barbatus (Fairiciua), Gill. 



Syn. Phoca leporina, Lepechin, 1778. 

 Phoca lachtak, Desmakest, 1817. 

 Phoca lepechini, parsonsi, Lesson, 1828 

 Phoca aJhifjena, nautica, Pallas, 1831. 

 Phoca naurica, Gray, 1871. 



Hab. North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Arctic Seas. 

 IV. Genu8 Halichcerus, Nilsson. 



8. Halichcerus grypus (Falridus), Nilsson. 



Syn. Halichwrus griseus, Nilsson, 1820. 



Phoca halichcerus, scopulicola, Thienemann, 1824. 

 Phoca tliienernanni, Lesson, 1828. 



Halichoerus macrorhynchus, pachyrhynchus, HORNSCHUCH and S tttt. - 

 LING, 1850. 



Hab. North Atlantic, from Newfoundland and Western Islands north- 

 ward. 



V. Gemis Monachus, Fleming. 



Syn. Monachus, Fleming, Phil. Zoo!., ii, 1822, 187, footnote. Type, Phoca 



monachus, Hermann. 

 Pelagius {"Pelage"), F. Cuvier, M^m. du Mu8.,xi, 1824, 193. Type, 



Phoca monachxis, Hermann. 

 Eeliophoca, Gb.aYj'Ptoc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1854, 43. Type, Heliophoca 



atlantica, GTa,j,= Monachus alMventer, juv. 



9. Monachus albiventer (Boddaert), Gray. 



Syn. Phoca monachus, Hermann, Beschaft. d. Berlinishche Gesells. Na- 

 turf. Freunde, iv, 1779, 456, pll. xii, xiii. 



Phoquea ventre ilanc, Buffon, Hist. Nat., Suppl., vi, 1782, pi. xliv. 



''Phoca albiventer, Boddaert, Elen. Anim., 1785, 170" (from Buffon, as 

 ahove). 



Phoca Mcolor, Shaw, Gen. Zool., i, 1800, 254. 



Phoca leucogaster, P6ron, Voy. aux Terr. Austr., ii, 1817, 47. 



Pelagius monachus, F. Cuvier, Diet, des Sci. Nat., xxxix, 1826, 550. 



Phoca hermanni. Lesson, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., xiii, 1828 { = Phoca 

 monachus, Hermann). 



"Monachus mediten-aneus, Nilsson, Kongl. Vet. Akad. Handl. Stock- 

 holm, 1837, 235" (see Wiegmann's Arch. f. Naturg., 1841,1,308, 

 footnote). 



Heliojihoca atlantica. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1854,43 (young). 

 Hab. Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Black Seas; Madeira and Canary 

 Islands ; east coast of Africa ? 



VI. Genus Cystophora, Nilsson. 



Syn. Stemmatopus, F. Cuvier; Mirounga, Gray (in part). 



11. Cystophora cristata (Erxleien), Nilsson. 



Syn. Phoca leonina, Linn:^ 1766 (in part; not Phoca leonina, Linn6, 1758). 

 Phoca cucullata, Boddaert, 1785. 



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